FOREST GROVE PRESS
THURSDAY DECEMBER 11, 1911
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Panama j
Washington County Agency, Overland Cars
Story of the Panama Canal From Start to Finish.
Wood, Coal,
Cold Storage
and Ice.
MRETZ & LATTA
Cor. 5th Ave.
and 2n 1 St.,
Forest G rove,
Ore.
A. A. K I R K W O O D
CIVIL ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR
Municipal Engineering
Surveying and Subdividing
Phone 482
Abbot Building
FOREST GROVE, OREGON
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Prescription Specialist
PHONE 901
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H. LIDYARD
W a KLER & LIDYARD
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1st Ave. N., near Main St.
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Special attention given
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suuiu-aor come to Panama unless for
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and. In addition, vacations with full
(Continued from last^week.)
pay. sick leave on pay and cheap food
iii.04-» yards Had been excavated and and other necessaries.
Although the French had abandoned
nine steam shovels were at work. The
!, 357 reuuvuted French buildings and the Idea o f a sea level canal In favor
l forty-eight new structures housed the of a lock type, there still was a good
deal o f life In the Idea among the
American people. For one thing, a sea
level cnnnl was so much more easily
grasped by the popular mind, and then
I all engineers concede that It Is the
I Ideal canal where It Is practicable. In
Panama division o f opinion arose over
this point of practicability.
A sea level canal aptly has been de
scribed as “ n wide and deep passage
navigable at all times, day or night, at
all seasons and In all weathers by all
sorts and sizes o f vessels." The loci
type Involves operations not readlp
] portrayed to the lay mind, but eml
nently simple when seen In praotion
[ use.
The Walker coVnmlsslon o f 1901 list
estimated the cost o f a sea level can«
at *145.000.000 The commission of
1905 recommended a sea level type t<
cost $230,500.000. Mr. Wallace later es
Mm a ted tire coet at sea level at $300.
Guida Walla Padra Migual Laok.
employees, except thoae who provided 000,000. exclusive o f the $ 50 , 000.001
shelter for themselves In Colon and paid for the canal »one and French
Panama. There was no commissary property.
That these American estimates shonl»'
and no hotels.
An executive order had made the come, in the main, tinder the amomi
civil service cover the caasl sone on actually spent by the French, who 6*
Nov. 15. 1904. but both Mr. Wallace tie more than scraped the surface,
an i Mr. Stevens protested so earnestly shows, for one thing, that the Ameri-
against the restrictions o f this order uns believed there had been gross ex­
that on Jan. 12. 1006, President Roose­ travagance and inefficiency In the
velt removed all employees except French o|>eratloiia and, for another
clerks frum the scope of the act. thus thing, that the Americana bad no ade­
allowing Mr. Stevens to employ any quate grasp upon the task they were
one he saw fit on any terms be chose. undertaking. Thla same Insufficiency
The eight honr day restriction likewise of estimates continued until 1906.
was lifted, hnt agitation In the Unit when Colonel Goethala faced the aitu-
ed States caused the president later to atiou frankly uud announced the cost
relmpo.se both limitations, with what­ for a lock type to be $375,000,000,
ever increase in time and cost o f con which was far ahead of the highest
structing the cuual they might Involve. estimate for a sea level canal.
In
The Americans had been in Panama 1909 Colonel Goethals said a sea level
more than a year, and still the type of canal would cost $563,000,000 and take
canal to be built was undecided. In six years longer to build than a lock
tho menntlme Mr. Stevens rapidly was canal, which was before the slides In
rounding Into shai>e an organization of the Culebra cut became so formidable
workers, getting suitable quarters and a sea level canal had been shown
erected for the employees, who were thereby to be all but Impossible.
coming in large numbers, organizing
President Roosevelt took a charac­
the commissary and hotel systems, se- teristic step to end the dispute. On
corlng mechanical equipment and June 24. 1905, a few days before the
bringing the transportation facilities appointment of Mr. Stevens as chief
to a satisfactory standard. Governor engineer, he named an International
Magoon simultaneously was organiz­ | board of advisory engineers to recoin
ing a civil government along the lines meml u type o f canal.
blazed by Governor Davis.
Police,
Out of this board fire were foreign­
courts, schools, lire departments, post ers and eight Americans. The board
offices, recreation clubhouses, church­ visited the Isthmus In October, 1905.
es— I d short, duplicating on a scule and reported to the president on Jan
suitable to the canal zone the civiliza­ 10. 1906. The majority, composed of
tion of the United States.
eight engineers and comprising all of
By June. 1906. ths end o f his first the foreigners, recommended a sen
year as chief engineer, Mr. Stevens level canal. Messrs. Davis. Burr and
bad made a remarkable showing lu Parsons were the three Americans
every phase of the work. There were who signed the majority report. The
thirty-nine steam shovel* at work as minority of five Americana recom­
against nine in 1905. The working mended a lock type canal with a lake
force had increased to 23.901, of whom at eighty-five feet above aea level form
3.264 were Americans. But as show ed by a dam across the Chagroa river
ing how cloeely his efforts were con at Gatun. They estimated the exen
eentrated on preparatory work the to vatlon at 108.795.000 cubic yards and
tal excavation for the year was only the cost exclusive of sanitation and
1,409.5172 yards, the highest figures for ctvH
government
*t
$189,105.200
one month being In March. 1906, when Nino years, or until 1915, wns the time
239,175 yards were removed.
estimated for completing the canal
Colonel Gorgas and his sanitary de There were to he three locks In flight
partment got on top of the yellow at Gatun. each 1(6 by 100 feet usable
fever epidemic In September, 1905, and dimensions and on the Pacific side one
In general so dominated the hitherto lock at Pedro Miguel and two at La
unhealthful isthmus that even the ho* Boca, at the entrance, the distance be
tile press began to show a change lu twivsu Pedro Miguel and La Boca,
heart on this score, with the result that -Ight miles, to he a second artificial
the immigration of workers largely in lake. The Culebra cut was to be 200
creased. Recruiting agencies already
eft « ¡d e for live miles and IJ'-» fee
had been opened In the West Indies. wide for four miles.
Europe and the principal American clt
Chief Engineer Stevens and all but
les. More than 12.000 men were im
tie member of the commission con
ported In 1900 on contract with the curved in the minority reiiort. Secre
commission. The common labor wus ary T a ft * visas to the isthmus ban
estimated by Mr. Stevens to be about
ouverted him to the lock type, am’
33 per cent as efficient as similar Ainer President Roosevelt i .»nslsleutly had
lean labor. It was not until 1906 that
avored It.
the wlvw. and families of the Arneri
The situation was one where the
cans began coming to the csnsl mur
holce wonld tie decided by the weighi
in considerable n urn iters, although
■he president should throw to either
there had been a heroic hand of them
¿port. To reject the majority repon
throughout the trying days before the
'avorlng a sen level canal and to ad
tropical terrors had been conquered.
Early In bis connection with thi vocate the minority report for a lock
canal Mr. Stevens discovered that ,ype canal wus a responsibility of un
practically all the material lu the t ’ule ostial magnitude for an executive who
bra cut would have to be blasted be­ professed to have no technical engi
Yet
President
fore it could be handled by the steurn ueering knowledge.
shovels. He had to he careful In se­ Roosevelt made the momentous dec!
lecting dumps so as to insure that they slon without hesitation, sending n
would not become’ an obstruction to strong messnge recommending the ml
any type o f canal or route that might nority report
Congress debated the Issue until June
be selected.
The high wages and salaries for 21, when the senate by the close vote
which the canal zone Is noted original o f 36 to 31 decided for it io< k type, nnd
ed under Mr. Stevens. So bad a name on June 28 the house concurred, the
had been given the Isthmus In the past bill becoming law on June 29. 1906.
T w o years and two months hnd pass­
that extra inducements had to be made
to attract workers, free quarters, pay ed from the time the Americans came
from 30 per cent to 60 per cent higher to Panama In May. 1904. to July 1.
than In the United States and a rate 1906, before this decision was made,
o f $20 from New York to Colon on and at last the commission knew what
steamers operated by the government, plan o f canal was to be followed. l:i
with other perquisites, being some of September, 1906, Mr Stevens started
the advertised attractions. Besides, in the excavations in the sites for the
the latter part o f Mr. Stevens’ regime, Gatun locks, the Pedro Miguel lock
the United States was enjoying unex­ and the Gatun da in spillway. Surveys
ampled prosperity, the palmy days be­ were begun for relocating the Panama
fore the panic o f 1907. Mechanics and railroad, which for a considerable dis­
all kinds o f workers could obtain em­ tance would tie swallowed np by the
ployment at home at high wages and completed canal. The fifteen mouths
By Wm. R. Scott.
PACI FI C GA RA GE
preparatory work was beginning to
tell In the Increased excavations In the
Culebra cut, us the organization was
getting Its stride. Commissaries, which
sold everything the canal employee
needed, were In operation lu the prin­
cipal towns, the hotels for the bache­
lors were well organized, quarters had
been erected until all were .mused,
though at times rather crowded; tun
chiuery. supplies and equipment were
on hand or ordered to the extent of 80
per cent of what would be needed to
complete the canal, health conditions
were admirable, and the whole situa­
tion was shaping for the real work of
building the canal.
Preaideut Roosevelt paid the canal
zone a visit In November, 1906. It was
a trip o f exploration for him, and the
way he Ignored the formal plans for
his entertainment delighted the em­
ployees.
Subordinate officials were
rather anxious that he should Inspect
just the things they had spick and
span for him to Inspect, hat from the
time he landed at Coion he ate and
nosed 111 and out of every part o f the
canal and led them a merry chase.
The entbusiusm for the "daddy” of
the project was boundless, and the
shortcomings be noted resulted In bet
ter conditions of employment for the
men.
One evidence of the growing luxury
of living conditions lu the canal zone
was the Installation on Jan. 1. 1907, of
electric lights lu the quarters o f the
married aud bachelor employees at
Empire and Culebra. Other towns
•mon were furnished with electricity.
The first public school had heeu open­
ed a year l^fore thla event, or on Jan.
2. 1906. The summer and fall of 1906
and the winter of 1907 saw another
great controversy raging aronnd the
canal, which, like the battle o f the
levels, was to he decided arbitrarily by
President Roosevelt.
Chairman Shunts long had entertain­
ed the opinion that the canal should
he constructed by private contractors
fie pressed the plan so vigorously and
the popular opinion of the Inefficiency
of the government was so strong that
the president authorized Secretary
T s f t to ask for bids on Oct. 9, 1906.
Bids for constructing the canal by
private contract were opened at Wash­
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